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Wednesday, 5 October 2016

Polling Politics

This week in
deepest Birmingham at the Symphony Hall has been more Boulez that Beethoven and
has seen the birth of yet another new political party to replace The
Conservative Party. It is the Consbour Dimocrat Party, the short form being Conrat.

It's essential
purpose is that it will be a party that is all things to all persons that will
spend more with less money from tax while at the same time observing due
economic care.

Quite how this
will be managed is apparently a mystery to many in the media. But last week's "Private Eye" which
gave a lot of space to the business history and personal background of Amber
Rudd might suggest that imaginative finance is the key.

Ms. Rudd is
now Home Secretary, which is not finance, but may enable her to prevent undue
interest and actions in these matters should anyone be so foolish or unwise to
think about it. She was canny enough to
grab the headlines on immigration issues which has kept the media and many
others excited.

There is also
the Health Service. Our NHS lately has
taken to employing more spin doctors than medical doctors. With the mortality
rate rising and the and the health standards falling it is proposed to train
more medic's rather than importing them.

There was once
a time in a past age when the local GP's had not only men but often with Scots
or Irish accents. If you could not find
one in the surgery you could always try the bar at one or other of the local
rugby clubs. These happy times have passed.
Now the ones we have spend time crouched over their laptop screens wonder what
on earth their patients may be suffering from.

If they are
not very good at this there is a real risk that they could be looking at web
pages dealing with animal health or treatments in the medieval or ancient
world. Usually, they see a pop up
advert' for a pill and prescribe that, however, which is what they are supposed
to do.

Little seems
to have been said about foreign affairs beyond just how much we will be under
the rule of Brussels, Berlin or Deutsche Bank, or rather the financial
imperatives of bailing them all out of unwise and over optimistic decisions of
the past. The bank has a lien on the
freeholds of many thousands of UK properties, but don't mention that to the
leaseholders.

The real
question of the day is when the Prime Minister of this new party, Ms. May might
decide to have a General Election. One
opinion on this is next Spring. But if
my reading of the world situation is right she ought to go for it as soon as
possible. A delay might mean she is the
new Gordon Brown rather than a Tony Blair.Blair was
always a Conrat at heart, but did not like to say so in public.